I've been interested in the euthanasia issue for years. It was a topic of debate among the people I knew in the 1960s, along with the writings of reincarnation enthusiasts like Ruth Montgomery; if you’re coming back anyway, why not cut this miserable leg of your journey short? It was also a topic in my unpublished 1994 novel about the future of America under socialized medicine (I’m used to canned rejections, but in this case I received a slew of very personal and very outraged rejections from NY agents and publishers).

In recent years, I've actively researched the subject. My interest has been piqued by reading about euthanasia’s increasing popularity in the Netherlands, where three different terms are used to describe it so that it doesn’t seem quite so prevalent. I know a few big fans of the late Jack Kevorkian. And get this: There really is a "Church of Euthanasia." Its slogan appears to be "Save the planet, kill yourself."

I have certainly heard all the arguments in favor of such practices. Of course, these arguments reject the ultimate Authority on this subject and all others, the Lord God Himself. He said, “Thou shalt not kill,” and that should settle the issue once and for all.

It even seems that our leaders in Washington would agree. They and their supporters keep assuring us doubters that NO ONE is talking about bureaucrats killing the elderly or even advising them to give up and die. During the Obama years, they pointed out repeatedly that the President had specifically denied that the government would do anything of the sort. “Just the opposite,” they said.

Right. Politicians do say such things.

But since when does what a politician SAYS have anything to do with what he DOES or, in this case, WILL HAVE TO DO? Have our fearless leaders somehow managed to reverse the laws of mathematics just as they've learned to ignore scientific laws on everything from entropy to biogensis? Perhaps it's now Common Core okay to reject this plain old balance-your-checkbook equation:

Fewer Taxpayers (thanks in part to 50+million aborted babies) + Oodles of Baby Boomers on Medicare and Medicaid Not Enough Money To Pay for It All.

But hold on: Even in our topsy-turvy, "good is evil and evil is good" world, this equation should still hold. Given limited resources (and honestly, Virginia, goverment does not have its own money), healthcare will have to be rationed. And guess who’ll be the first to get rationed right out of the picture?

That’s right: the folks who can no longer afford to make even a meager contribution to either government coffers or politicians’ war chests. ​

Great post Kitty. All of this angst about affordable health care and the lack of funds to pay for it spells disaster for the poor,sick,and aged. This has really been driven home to me since I've moved to Florida where the population is decidedly older. I see seniors barely able to get around and can't help but wonder if society feels they have any worth left. As you say, God help us.

Right on, Ron. We seem to just tuck them away and hope they'll die sooner rather than later. But oh, the eternal treasures in each of those old souls ... what a waste it is to ignore them!

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Dean Neumann

5/5/2017 10:30:03 am

Yes, the generation that aborted its children will be the generation to be aborted by their children. Their only mistake is that they left some of them alive.

Modern medicine is already on the euthanasia band wagon. Everything that they do does not make things better for the patient, but in reality actually shortens his life.

Some how we have gotten on the kick that the world is over populated. Of course, there are certain places that are over populated. But it is not a numbers problem, it's a distribution problem. The actual problem is that the population will eventually start falling. With the exception of certain religious populations, governments are actually trying to encourage young couples to have children.

It won't be long and we might start hearing about something like soylent green.